I have Scientific Linux, based on Red Hat Enterprise. I don't see any
support groups, so here I am...

I'm having trouble figuring out how to set up home networking. I can
ping my windows machine from the Linux box and can ping the Linux box
from Windows. Under Applications, network servers in Linux it shows
Windows Network. Under File in the network window if I try to Open, I
get a bland screen and if I try to browse folder I get smb:/// and
that's all. I have a home network set up and working with all other
computers: Two other Windows machines and three Linux boxes, two of
which are running Ubuntu and one running SUSE and they all work fine
with both file sharing and print sharing. I can't see the Scientific
Linux box from any other system in the house.

From the Scientific box I access the Internet - as I do with all other
computers - through a cable modem, router and hub.

Any suggestions?

10-07-2007, 12:38 PM

unix

Re: networking

"Joe O" <JOsterheim@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:_POdnQsewrBTi8jbnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@comcast.com...[color=blue]
>I have Scientific Linux, based on Red Hat Enterprise. I don't see any
>support groups, so here I am...
>
> I'm having trouble figuring out how to set up home networking. I can ping
> my windows machine from the Linux box and can ping the Linux box from
> Windows. Under Applications, network servers in Linux it shows Windows
> Network. Under File in the network window if I try to Open, I get a bland
> screen and if I try to browse folder I get smb:/// and that's all. I have
> a home network set up and working with all other computers: Two other
> Windows machines and three Linux boxes, two of which are running Ubuntu
> and one running SUSE and they all work fine with both file sharing and
> print sharing. I can't see the Scientific Linux box from any other system
> in the house.
>
> From the Scientific box I access the Internet - as I do with all other
> computers - through a cable modem, router and hub.[/color]

You will need to enable and configure Samba on the linux box to be able to
get windows to access your linux share directories.
( hence you get the smb:// prefix on the windows box)
You will also need to enable and coiffure NFS on the linux box to be able to
get all the other linux boxes to have access to your linux share
directories.

Setting up a home network with 6 machines can get a bit involved , you would
be better setting up one of the linux boxes as a DNS server and gateway to
your cable modem.

There is quite a lot of documentation about setting up linux /windows
networks , here is just one page

Sandgroper wrote:
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> "Joe O" <JOsterheim@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:_POdnQsewrBTi8jbnZ2dnUVZ_gSdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>[color=green]
>>I have Scientific Linux, based on Red Hat Enterprise. I don't see any
>>support groups, so here I am...
>>
>>I'm having trouble figuring out how to set up home networking. I can ping
>>my windows machine from the Linux box and can ping the Linux box from
>>Windows. Under Applications, network servers in Linux it shows Windows
>>Network. Under File in the network window if I try to Open, I get a bland
>>screen and if I try to browse folder I get smb:/// and that's all. I have
>>a home network set up and working with all other computers: Two other
>>Windows machines and three Linux boxes, two of which are running Ubuntu
>>and one running SUSE and they all work fine with both file sharing and
>>print sharing. I can't see the Scientific Linux box from any other system
>>in the house.
>>
>>From the Scientific box I access the Internet - as I do with all other
>>computers - through a cable modem, router and hub.[/color]
>
>
> You will need to enable and configure Samba on the linux box to be able to
> get windows to access your linux share directories.
> ( hence you get the smb:// prefix on the windows box)
> You will also need to enable and coiffure NFS on the linux box to be able to
> get all the other linux boxes to have access to your linux share
> directories.
>
> Setting up a home network with 6 machines can get a bit involved , you would
> be better setting up one of the linux boxes as a DNS server and gateway to
> your cable modem.
>
> There is quite a lot of documentation about setting up linux /windows
> networks , here is just one page
>
> Linux Documentation Project HOWTOs
> [url]http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html[/url]
>
> Here is a google linux search engine
> [url]http://www.google.com/linux[/url]
>
> LinuxQuestions forum
> [url]http://www.linuxquestions.org/[/url]
>
>
>[/color]
Thanks......That worked and I got it set up.....

Actually, that makes seven machines networked now, and three of them are
dual boot, so I'm networked with either OS I boot into. It went smooth
until I got to SL. I'm just not that versed in Linux; I knew it needed
to be set up, but some of the commands are still new to me. The Ubuntu
and SUSE machines pretty much set themselves up.